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Positive COVID-19 Test Reporting Protocol

Effective January 14, 2024, Colorado's Regulation 6 CCR 1009-1 Reportable Diseases, Condition, and Related Events requires Pikes Peak State College to report positive COVID-19 test results only if it resulted in hospitalization. If you tested positive for COVID-19 but were not hospitalized, you do not need to report it to the college. Please complete this Online Communicable Diseases Form to report any of the conditions listed below to PPSC.

 

 

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COVID-19 & COMMUNICABLE DISEASE REPORTING

As a PPSC student or employee, if you are found positive of any of the listed diseases below, please inform the College by completing the Online Communicable Disease Form. In accordance with Colorado's Regulation 6 CCR 1009-1 Reportable Diseases, Condition, and Related Events , PPSC is required to report any unusual illnesses, outbreaks, or epidemic of illnesses to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. The following list of diseases, conditions, and related events have been declared by the State of Colorado to be potentially dangerous and shall be reportable:

  • Acute flaccid myelitis
  • Animal bites by dogs, cats, bats, skunks, foxes, raccoons, coyotes, or other wild carnivores
  • Animal bites by mammals not listed above
  • Anthrax (Baccilus anthracis)
  • Blastomycosis (Blastomyces species)
  • Botulism (Clostridium botulinum)
  • Brucellosis (Brucella species)
  • Camplyobacteriosis (Campylobacter species)
  • Candida auris7 (Candida auris)
  • Chagas disease (Trypanosoma cruzi)
  • Chancroid (Haemophilus ducreyi)
  • Chlamydia, any site (Chlamydia trachomatis)
  • Cholera (Vibrio cholerae)
  • Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease (CJD) and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs)
  • Coccidiodomycosis
  • COVID-19 Associated Deaths or Hospitalizations
  • Cryptosporidiosis (Cryptosporidium species)
  • Cyclosporiasis (Cyclospora species)
  • Diphteria (Corynebacterium diphtheriae)
  • Encephalitis
  • Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli)
  • Giardiasis (Giardia lamblia)
  • Glanders (Burkholderia mallei)
  • Gonorrhea, any site, including disseminated gonorrhea (Neisseria gonorrhoeae)
  • Haemophilus influenzae
  • Hantavirus disease
  • Healthcare-associated infections
  • Hemolytic uremic syndrome if < 18 years of age
  • Hepatitis A (Hepatitis A virus (+IgM anti-HAV, +PCR or +NAAT))
  • Hepatitis B (Hepatitis B virus (+HBsAg, +IgM anti-HBc, +HBeAg, or +hBV DNA))
  • Hepatitis C (Hepatitis C virus (+ serum antibody titer and/or +confirmatory assays))
  • Hepatitis, other viral
  • Histoplasmosis (Histoplasma species)
  • Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/ acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) (Human immunodeficiency virus; CD5 counts, any value; HIV viral load, any value)
  • Influenza-associated death if < 18 years old
  • Influenza-associated hospitalization
  • Legionellosis (Legionella Species)
  • Leprosy (Hansen's Disease) (Mycobacterium leprae)
  • Listeriosis
  • Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi)
  • Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) (Chlamydia trachomatis)
  • Malaria (Plasmodium species)
  • Measles (rubeola) (Measles virus)
  • Melioiddosis (Burkholderia pseudomallei)
  • Meningococcal disease (Neisseria meningitidis or gram-negative diplococci)
  • Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia (Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococccus aureus (MRSA)
  • Mpox (monkeypox) (Mpox virus; orthopox virus)
  • Multisystem Inflammatory Children in Children (MIS-C) if <21 years old
  • Mumps (Mumps virus; acute infection)
  • Outbreaks - known or suspected of all types, including those transmitted from food, water, person-to-person, and related to a healthcare setting
  • Pertussis (whooping cough) (Bordatella pertussis)
  • Plague (Yersinia pestis)
  • Poliomyelitis (Poliovirus)
  • Psittacosis (Chlamydia psittaci)
  • Q fever (Coxiella burnetii)
  • Rabies: human (suspected) (Rabies virus; Lyssavirus)
  • Respiratory syncytial virus-associated death if <18 years 
  • Respiratory Syncytial Virus-associated hospitalizations (Respiratory Syncytial Virus)
  • Rickettsiosis (Rickettsia species, including Rocky Mountain spotted fever and typhus groups)
  • Rubella (acute infection) (Rubella virus)
  • Rubella (congenital) (Rubella virus)
  • Salmonellosis (Salmonella species)
  • Shigellosis (Shigella species)
  • Smallpox (Variola virus (orthopox virus)
  • Syphillis (Treponema pallidum)
  • Tetanus (Clostridium tetani)
  • Tick-borne relapsing fever (Borrelia species and spirochetemia except burgdorferi species)
  • Toxic shock syndrome (streptococcal and non-streptococcal) (Streptococcus pyogenes and non-streptococcal bacteria)
  • Trichinosis (Trichinella species)
  • Tuberculosis disease (active) (Mycobacterium tuberculosis)
  • Tularemia (Francisella tularensis)
  • Typhoid fever (Salmonella Typhi)
  • Varicella (chiken pox) (Varicella virus)
  • Viral hemorrhagic fever (Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic virus, Ebola virus, Lassa fever virus, Lejo virus, Marburg virus, Guanarito virus, Junin virus, Machupo virus, Sabia virus)

If you have any questions or concerns, please call the PPSC Human Resources Office at 719-502-2600.

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COVID Safety Information

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has provided new guidance on preventing the spread of COVID/FLU/Respiratory Virus, so please take care of yourself, and the Pikes Peak community.  With that in mind, please:

Report positive test results only if hospitalized: 
 Practice Proper Hygiene:
  • Wash your hands regularly.
  • Cover coughs and sneezes.
  • Face masks are optional, and faculty/instructors and staff may choose to wear masks in the classroom or on campus. 
When you may have a respiratory virus such as COVID/FLU/Respiratory Virus...

Stay home and away from others (including people you live with who are not sick) if you have respiratory virus symptoms that aren't better explained by another cause. These symptoms can include fever, chills, fatigue, cough, runny nose, and headache, among others.

  • You can go back to your normal activities when, for at least 24 hours, both are true:
    • Your symptoms are getting better overall, and
    • You have not had a fever (and are not using fever-reducing medication).
  • When you go back to your normal activities, take added precaution over the next 5 days, such as taking additional steps for cleaner air, hygiene, masks, physical distancing, and/or testing when you will be around other people indoors. 
    • Keep in mind that you may still be able to spread the virus that made you sick, even if you are feeling better. You are likely to be less contagious at this time, depending on factors like how long you were sick or how sick you were.
    • If you develop a fever or you start to feel worse after you have gone back to normal activities, stay home and away from others again until, for at least 24 hours, both are true: your symptoms are improving overall, and you have not had a fever (and are not using fever-reducing medication). Then take added precaution for the next 5 days. 
Thank you for your patience as we continue to navigate the well-being of those on our Pikes Peak State College campuses.
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